Video Log#1 Angela

Video Log Reflection

Content:

In my video log, I first summarized the author’s thesis that playing music in workplace can benefit employees. Secondly, I conclude the author’s main ideas through three parts which are playing music in workplace make worker more productive, playing music in workplace motivated workers and playing music in workplace makes workers connect and understand each other easily. Also I provided one opposite views which argues that music in workplace make employees less interacted with each other. At the end, I concluded my response and gave my own opinion about this topic.

Nonverbal Behavior:

In the video, I only focused on my audience sometimes because I read some part of my summary. Moreover, I think I do not have adequate facial expression and gestures. In the video I was a little bit nervous and I could not show some important gestures to get the attention from my audience. I think I need more practice with eye contacting and body languages, and I would like to learn more about how to make one comfortable when we are recording ourselves.

Grammar, Pronunciation, Voice, & Pace:   

In the video, I first made some mistakes on subject verb agreement, such as technology devices make (not makes). Second, I did not recognize the singular and plural word use in this sentence, “which could relax the worker and energize them...” the correct one should be “which could relax the workers and energize them...” Also, I have some intonation problem because there is some pauses between words which make the sentence a little bit choppy. Third, My voice does not sound relax in the video and because of the tension my voice does not sound smooth. Overall, my pace is in a standard level. 
  

Goals for Future Video Logs:

In future video logs, I will practice more times before I record myself and I will avoid reading the summary from the paper and make eye contact to my audience. Also, I will ask someone to be my real audience to listen to my speeches and make some comments about my pronunciation and body languages. In addition, I will make some sentences which include the words that I mispronounced and practice it every day until I can say it consistently.